Athens : its rise and fall : with views of the literature, philosophy, and social life of the Athenian people / Edward Bulwer Lytton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.

Contributor:

Murray, Oswyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Athens (Greece)--History.

Athens (Greece).

Physical Description:

xviii, 610 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm

Edition:

Bicentenary edition / edited by Murray, Oswyn.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton was once Britain's most famous historical novelist, rivalling and outselling Dickens in his day. His best-known book was "The Last Days of Pompeii"; yet he was also responsible for a great work of history. Athens: Its Rise and Fall, originally published in 1837, is the most important and readable of the Victorian histories of ancient Greece. It stands alongside Macauley and Carlyle as a great historical work of British Romanticism, and anticipates the thinking of George Grote and John Stuart Mill on Greek history by over a decade. 2003 is the bicentenary of Bulwer-Lytton's birth. To celebrate, Routledge is reissuing this influential work. This new edition will include the text of a never-before published "third volume," recently discovered by Oxford academic Oswyn Murray.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 596-598) and index.

ISBN:

0415320879

OCLC:

52846405